A popular study asked Christian participants to form impressions of Christian and Jewish individuals after heightening ‘mortality salience’; that is, reminding people of the prospect of their own death. It was found that mortality salience predicted a more positive evaluation of the Christian individual and a more negative evaluation of the Jewish individual. Such findings support which theory of intergroup relations?
a) Belief similarity
b) Subjective uncertainty reduction hypothesis
c) Social identity theory
d) Terror management theory
CORRECT = D
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